How to make a portal?

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hod do i make a portal thet when entered, sends me to a designated waypoint, in thia case, the tag is "jim" and also hod do u do it for a trigger. i meen the non-area transition trigers.

[ November 02, 2002, 19:40: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

 

you need to create a script under the on-enter. The script would move the player by using actionjumptoobject

 

(Look at this Thorin! Figured out all by myself! )

Right, the tag has nothing to do with it. Create a Generic Trigger in your module, and place it in the portal bit.
Then, make a Waypoint at the place where you want the portal to lead to, and call it PORTAL_EXIT in it's tag.

Then go to the Trigger's properties, and put this in it's OnEnter script:

Code:

 void main()
{
    object oPC = GetEnteringObject();
    location lWaypoint = GetLocation(GetWaypointByTag("PORTAL_EXIT"));
    AssignCommand(oPC, JumpToLocation(lWaypoint));
}

I will explain this script here, so that you can maybe make your own or whatever.

object oPC = GetEnteringObject();
basically tells us that 'oPC' is the same as the thing that enters the trigger, so every time you want to refer to who entered the trigger, you say oPC.

location lWaypoint = GetLocation(GetWaypointByTag("PORTAL_EXIT"));
tells us that 'lWaypoint' is the same location as the Waypoint's Tag PORTAL_EXIT. So instead of typing GetLocation(GetWaypointByTag("PORTAL_EXIT") you can simply say 'lWaypoint' instead.

AssignCommand(oPC, JumpToLocation(lWaypoint));
is pretty simple. It gives the object 'oPC' (the thing that entered the trigger remember) a command, which is to Jump to the Location called 'lWaypoint' which is the simple term for saying PORTAL_EXIT.

I hope that clears it up.
Goph

[ November 02, 2002, 11:11: Message edited by: Gopher ]

 

Really nice script Gopher. But herer are some improvements to it.

First as Gopher stated you use the GetLocation the reason for that is the GetWaypoint command does not work when it has to find a waypoint in a different area, you have to use a GetLocation command if you are sending a person between areas.

Second you can add a little line at the bottom of the code, if you want this portal to work only once:
DestroyObject(OBJECT_SELF);

Also if you want your portal to have some special effects you can use something simmilar to this:
ApplyEffectAtLocatio(DURATION_TYPE_INSTANT,EffectVisualEffect(VFX_IMP_UNSUMMON), locSpellTarget);
//that is all one line of code

ActionWait(2.0);

Then your jumptolocation command. This will provide you with a nice special effect while the person goes to the next location